These are specific directions for Mrs. Alejandre's mathematics students at Frisbie Middle School. Students were given a lesson on making graphs using a Claris Works spreadsheet file. They are to apply what they learned in that lesson as they work on a Team Project involving a survey, data collection and data display.

Make a File

Insert your disk.

Open your disk. Find a Claris Works file and open it.

Now that you are in the Claris Works program, go to File and select New.

Look at the list of different files, select Spreadsheet.

Go to File, select Save as.

In the window that appears, type a name for your file, click on Save.

Now you are ready to enter the data that you wish to display on a graph.

Enter Data

Make Graph

Change Colors and Fonts

Manipulating Graphics

Other Graphs

Besides bar graphs and pie charts there are other graphs that you can select to display
your data when using Claris Works. As we work with data and graphing we will discuss the
advantages/disadvantages of selecting specific types of graphs for data display.